From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15790 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2011 18:48:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 15782 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Aug 2011 18:48:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:48:25 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7JImPNC009916 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:48:25 -0400 Received: from [10.3.113.130] (ovpn-113-130.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.130]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7JImOJT030644 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:48:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4E4EAFF8.2010406@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:48:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110621 Fedora/3.1.11-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut References: <4E4C71F0.1010509@molconn.com> <4E4E9439.20908@molconn.com> <4E4EAC13.2080005@molconn.com> In-Reply-To: <4E4EAC13.2080005@molconn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00373.txt.bz2 On 08/19/2011 12:31 PM, LMH wrote: > I don't know anything about mintty and have always used bash. Can I run > all of my bash commands, or would I be learning a new shell? cmd, mintty, rxvt, xterm, and the like are terminals (the gui program that displays your tty in a window) - they are useless unless running some child program to do I/O in that tty bash, tcsh, and such are shells (the program that interacts with your tty) - they are useless unless some parent program is running a terminal for the tty input and output to show up in You need one program from each set, but changing from cmd to mintty does not have to affect your shell - you most likely want to still be using bash, so the set of bash commands you run does not change. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple